Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso - artistic frenemies

Sally Pryor
December 10 2019 - 8:00pm
Exhibition installers Ben Taylor and Ruby Rossiter hang Pablo Picasso's L'Artesienne: Lee Miller, part of the Matisse Picasso exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia. Picture: Elesa Kurtz
Exhibition installers Ben Taylor and Ruby Rossiter hang Pablo Picasso's L'Artesienne: Lee Miller, part of the Matisse Picasso exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia. Picture: Elesa Kurtz

When Henri Matisse died in 1954, his old friend and rival Pablo Picasso refused to go to the funeral.

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Sally Pryor

Sally Pryor

Features Editor

As features editor at The Canberra Times, I love telling people things they didn't know - or even things they've always known - about the city we live in.

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